Added: Monday, 20 July 2009, 03:29 AM Mecca time, 12:29 AM GMT
I know there´s a notion in the Angloamerican world that the rest of the western world are ungrateful for what they are doing in the "war against terror". Let me first say that it´s nothing wrong with targeting terrorists as Pakistan do now. They have to be put down as it´s the only language they understand. But Iraq has nothing to do with that. And what is happening now in Afghanistan is just another attack and occupation of a whole country that largely is victims themselves, is just a bit to much. Pakistan and Afghanistan can deal with their own thugs and if one truly wants to help them. there´s of course many other ways than sending in troops. It will only fuel the war even more. It´s high time that America change their policy towards the rest of the world. They should start taking care of the elements within that have an interest of instigating chaos in countrys they don´t fully control. Just accept that America is not an ideal and a blueprint that can be applied everywhere. Ciao!
JanC, Bangkok, Thailand
Added: Monday, 20 July 2009, 01:19 AM Mecca time, 10:19 PM GMT
i think that those hajis r not ready to be left on their own. theyre too weak with all of their different races and factions fighting eachother. and TAQ is still around.
dylanrules123456789, Las Vegas, United States
Added: Monday, 20 July 2009, 01:07 AM Mecca time, 10:07 PM GMT
Leonard, Raymond Nw Hampshire US. The very reason why Sadam, unlike Malosowitz, Robert Taylor etc. was tried in a Kangaroo Court by his enemies and not before the ICJ is that no credible evidence could be found to convict the man and he would most likely have been found innocent. If crimes against humanity was indeed one of the major issues justifying the 2003 invasion than Bush should have sent UN/human rights teams to Iraq to investigate/monitor prison conditions, instead of letting Hans Blix looking for the ever elusive, never found WMD. Than and only than would we have had prove that what Sadam had been accused of was right or false. Iraq had gone thru eitght years of war with Iran (supported by US and other western powers) during which time hundreds of thousands people had been killed, both combatants and civilians so no wonder there were massgraves all over the place. That doesn't necessarly means they had been killed by Sadam as propaganda want us to believe.
tom, Christchurch, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Added: Sunday, 19 July 2009, 08:23 PM Mecca time, 05:23 PM GMT
We do hope that the Iraqi government is going to be able to tackle the safety issues which have grown from an internal antagonization, detrimental to a middle-east, already raped savagely by the 5 vetoing nations of the world.
We don’t know how Iraq is going to address his problems, knowing that the former colonial tyrants have machiavellianly designed this region in sort to maintain a hightened antagonism between ethnicities a long run civilian terrorist intending concerning them.
Iraq is being facing a historical fate which doesn’t depend on the US army only, but on a whole colonialist and tyrannical vision of the world that none of us can change, unless a miracle would have happened.
Thereby, the withdrawal of these troops should have been accompanied with the ruling out of the UN and its despotic right to veto other nations, that, for to let these nations have a descent right to exist, and to contest their openly raping. We may have shown a reasonable skepticism though
cogito-sum, Montreal, Canada
Added: Saturday, 18 July 2009, 07:29 PM Mecca time, 04:29 PM GMT
First and verty important point is that whatever killing is done in any part of Iraq is because of Bush and Blair and total responsibilities lies on US and UK but this does not mean that they should remain in Iraq because again their presence in Iraq is totally illegal. US and Uk had to leave Iraq and Iraqi's themselves will have to govern their own country. Another very important point is that the present Government of Iraq is not independent and is the puppet of US and UK so the present government must be cancelled and new elections must be called and new parties must fight elections who are totally independent and not influenced by US or UK. What ever has happened and whatever is happening in Iraq is totally anti Iraq. US and UK must be compelled to pay for all the losses in Iraq be it the lives, or material moss or family broken.
rahma, petlad, India
Added: Saturday, 18 July 2009, 03:22 AM Mecca time, 12:22 AM GMT
Sub driver, Boston! No, we haven´t forgotten the war that Iraq started against Iran. But how´s your own memory? Selective, perhaps? Do you remember Rumsfield shaking hands with Saddam prior to the war? Do you remember all the weapons your country sent to Baghdad and the intelligence assistance they got from American spy sattelites? Saddam was a useful idiot then. Later he became a dangerous criminal. Anyone with his memory intact remembers all the twists and turns to make a buck in America´s straight way to democracy and freedom for the world. Ciao!
JanC, Bangkok, Thailand
Added: Saturday, 18 July 2009, 02:55 AM Mecca time, 11:55 PM GMT
Boston Sub Driver You are clearly ignorant of Iraq's past. Kuwait was a province of Iraq and became a construct of english imperialism. This had been an issue for many decades. Siphoning off oil was the last straw As for the war with Iran, there were some american shenanigans going on behind the scenes. American interference at its best. And during that war the americans were supplying weather forcasts to facilitate Iraqs deployment of chemical weapons. British companies supplied the ingredients for those chemical weapons. As to the withdrawal, make the americans stay, give them the tools and make them fix all the destruction they caused. That is the least they should do.
pamberi, Brattleboro, VT, United States
Added: Saturday, 18 July 2009, 12:57 AM Mecca time, 09:57 PM GMT
Hi JanC, this is Leonard. I have been reading your posts with some interest as you appear to have some pretty good insight about many things. I ask your opinion, what do you you think is the ultimate source of so much trouble in the world today?
Leonard, Raymond, New Hampshire, United States
Added: Friday, 17 July 2009, 11:21 PM Mecca time, 08:21 PM GMT
Befair
"Do you also deny what our Founding Fathers said about foreign entanglements ?"
Well I doubt our founding fathers envisioned a world in which one could eat breakfast in New York and dinner in London, or a world in which a person in Beijing could communicate instantaneously with the rest of the world. It is naive to believe that the most powerful country in the world can avoid many foreign entanglements in this highly globalized international community.
J., LA, United States
Added: Friday, 17 July 2009, 01:16 AM Mecca time, 10:16 PM GMT
Leonard,Raymond,New Hampshire, US Thanks a million for quoting Eisenhouwer in full and thanks Al Jazeera for publishing it. This is the sort of information we need in this debate.
